Well, it's official...according to a note from Politico, the White House has confirmed that surrogates of the Trump administration will no longer appear on CNN and will instead go to "places where we think it makes sense to promote our agenda."

“We’re sending surrogates to places where we think it makes sense to promote our agenda,” said a White House official, acknowledging that CNN is not such a place, but adding that the ban is not permanent.

A CNN reporter, speaking on background, was more blunt: The White House is trying to punish the network and force down its ratings.

“They’re trying to cull CNN from the herd,” the reporter said.

Of course, this development should come as little surprise to anyone who has been paying attention given that Trump has constantly blasted CNN as a "Fake News" outlet ever since his heated exchange with Jim Acosta at a press conference on January 11th.

.@CNN is in a total meltdown with their FAKE NEWS because their ratings are tanking since election and their credibility will soon be gone!

In fact, since that fateful January 11th tussle, Trump's surrogates, including Conway, Spicer, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and even Vice President Mike Pence, have made the rounds on the major Sunday political talk shows, with the notable exception of CNN’s “State of the Union" hosted by Jake Tapper. Tapper noted the absence this past weekend:

"We invited the Trump White House to offer us a guest to provide clarity and an explanation of what the president just did, especially given so much confusion, even within its own government by those who are supposed to carry out this order,” Tapper said on Sunday as he introduced a segment about the Executive Order banning visitors from some countries and putting a hold on the United States’ refugee policy. "The Trump White House declined our invitation.”

But while the Trump administration has refused to send surrogates on CNN talk shows, Spicer has confirmed that the "Fake News" outlet won't be frozen out of press briefings. Speaking at an event at George Washington University on Monday, Spicer pointed out that he’s answered CNN’s questions in the regular daily briefings but also noted that he's "not going to sit around and engage with people who have no desire to actually get something right."

Of course, Trump's stance toward CNN is not terribly different from how the Obama administration handled Fox News. That said, somehow we suspect the mainstream media will be slightly more outraged over Trump's treatment of CNN than they were over Obama's hostility toward Fox News over the years.

I'd love it if Spice started fucking with them, call on all five people sitting around CNN's person in the front row then start making eye contact but calling on other people. Let em burn, they've earned it.

Yes indeed. I built a sentiment bot a while back and had it read CNN articles, and funny enough, I saw a clear "pump and dump" they pulled on Trump, giving him a lot of positive coverage during the primaries, and then flipping to negative coverage post-nomination. In the chart you can see it flip the week of the nomination.

Clearly, they were pumping who they thought would be the candidate most likely to lose to Hillary, and then tried to manufacture his loss. Love him or hate him, those types of actions show a clear lack of journalistic integrity, and they are getting what they deserve.

Libtards will never get back into power...NOT until Hell Freezes over from global warming.......LMAO

Every time I see another libtard protest I think of my kid throwing a temper tantrum at toy r us when I tell him "NO you can't have that toy today"......visualize my kid on the floor rolling around screaming and pounding the floor.........kind of reminds me of Chucky Shummer and his defeated crew of deniers........GET OVER IT.....YOU LOST THE ELECTION!!!!!

And then what? Will they remember back in the day when CNN existed? Will they get mad enough to ape shit and protest violently, and wear pussy hats? You've already turned up the crazy. What do you have left, fuckhead?

CNN was co-opted long ago. Say what you want about Ted Turner but he was a huge uncontrolled thorn in the side of the MSM base. He really was interested in covering real news.

He has gone on record several times saying that selling CNN was his biggest regret (it was looked at as a merger w/ Time Warner, though he was rather quickly sidelined after). He literally says, and I quote "I was outmaneuvered." Time Warner then merged with AOL and became the poster child for 'all time worst mergers.' Turner's share was diluted to the point where he had no real influence in any of it's operations. With the dot com implosion immediately there after Turner's net worth plummeted something like 7-8 billion.

But they got the prize from him. And it's has been under control ever since.

Its their MO. They buy up companies with reputation / influence capital to spend and then lead the audience astray spending that capital until you end up with this : CNN, MSNBC NFL i could go on but you get the point.

AOL also has some rather interesting history. How many big tech related companies, based in Fairfax County VA, (Tyson's Corner, where AOL was based until it was merged with TIme Warner), who are not affiliated in some way with the Gov. / intel agencies? I would wager none.

What's also headquartered in Tysons Corner: Both USA Today and Gannett news companies.

(edit: also Booz Allen, MITRE corp, SAIC, Octagon and Primus are all located in Tyson's Corner. All are big time MIC companies, closely related to the CIA and intelligence complex).

Tyson's corner is just a stone's throw away from the CIA (Mclean VA is next to Tyson's Corner). It's spookville.

Time-Warner is a corporate sponsor of the Rockefeller/CFR and TW chairman Jeffrey Bewkes is a CFR member, along with Jake Tapper, David Gergen, Christiane Amanpour, Paula Zahn, James Sciutto, Fareed Zakaria, and Rana Foroohar. Zakaria and Foroohar were speakers at Davos last week. See member lists at cfr dot org.

The CEO of AOL, Tim Armstrong, was hired by Jeff Bewkes before the TW/AOL split. Before that, he was an exec at Google for 10 years; Google chairman Eric Schmidt is a CFR member. Armstrong is on the board of the "Paley Center"; CBS founder William Paley was a CFR member. He's an advisor to the "McChrystal Group"; Gen. Stanley McChrystal is a CFR member and a CFR Military Fellow.

Thanks to IBM Watson it's actually kinda trivial now. There are some limitations - language implying "significance" is also counted as positive, even if the tone in neutral.

I'm hoping to keep growing it so I can regularly cover every significant MSM/Alt media source - imagine watching the headlines change around a major event, with certain headlines being edited out. Nothing can be "erased" anymore.